“Love is the greatest act of faith.”

“Love conquers nothing. Love provides the motivation; the person must do the rest with their own hands, heart, and feet.”

“Smoked sausage and a jolly tupping. Ale and folly. Fickle bosoms and bar fights. That is the sum of experiences my souls gathered from their lives. Why do I attract all the unsophisticated fancy men? For once could one love the opera and his mother?—Lucinda Myer, b. 1702-d. 1808”

“For all their weirdness, I LOVE the penis people. I don't understand them. I can't imagine I'll ever learn their language of grunting and scratching, but I'm going to try. If I have to devote my life to learning, I will do it. I can't explain the compulsion that is me thinking about Stephen now. Or just watching a boy walk by and wondering what is going on inside his head. To have him want to play with my hair and take me exciting places. To touch his amazingly fabulous butt and not be arrested for assault.Don't they have a distinct smell? When do they start producing that spicy, manly, different-from-me scent? I don't mean the sweaty, take-a-shower odor, but the yummy soap and a hint of cologne. The kind of scent that makes me want to inhale in their general vicinity just because I can.I get fluttery and gooey and cease to function at higher levels. Like I shut down except for feeling things; like the hot rays of Stephen's manliness and the solid rock of femur and muscle under his denim cargo pants.”

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change it's form.”

“It's hard to take sex ed seriously when the teachers haven't even wiggled their stuff in this millennium.”

“History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers.”